“To paint, to sculpt, is to create a space of expression, an idiom liberated from words, specific to each artist, which restores, supports even, the complexity of beings and their emotions”.
Art is a long-standing passion for Martine Pierson. She has been fully committed to this path since 1999 with a dual training, in painting and sculpture, in Paris, at the Ateliers Nicolas Poussin.
At the same time, she attends the École du Louvre courses as an auditor/ auditeur libre.
In 2010 she takes up residence in Beijing, learning traditional Chinese ink techniques. Alongside artist Martin Salazar, she develops her work with clay and wax and goes on to create her bronze sculptures.
In Singapore she completes her training in etching with Miguel Chew at Singapore’s Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in 2015 and continues working with sculpture alongside Singaporean sculptor Yeo Chee Kiong, trained at the NAFA and at Glasgow School of Art.
The discovery of Asia was a formative moment in the artist’s work.
Martine Pierson places the human register at the heart of her practice, a questioning, sometimes bitter, on the ties between beings, their fragile or cynical nature, their solitude, their tensions; beings that are one with matter akin to an anchor one can never break free from.
Martine exhibited her work within the Temple of Confucius in Beijing. Her sculptures were presented at the Gallery Hervé in Paris and at the Gallery Jal in Les Portes-en-Ré.
She has also participated in several group exhibitions with BAM at Municipal Halls in the 5th, 7th and 15th districts of Paris.
She regularly showcases her work at the Salon des Arts in L’Étang–la–Ville. Works of her belong to private collections in France and abroad.
